Jeff Buckland reports:
''At Activision's E3 press conference this year, those who got to attend saw Guitar Hero: World Tour in action. Many gamers who have read the announcement that they're building on what Rock Band achieved last year have been wondering whether they can out-do Harmonix, and from what I've seen, I'm not sure they can. But at the very least, there's going to be some great competition in the music genre this fall.
GH: World Tour includes a new guitar that has the ability for the player to tap near the bottom of the neck, allowing a kind of slap bass. There's also a new touch panel just below the fret buttons on the neck, allowing for easy sliding of your fingers up and down for those pesky sequences of buttons you'll see in many of the songs in GH as well as Rock Band. The drums should look somewhat familiar to those who have played Rock Band with a couple of unique changes. First, there are only three drum pads, and now there are two cymbal pads raised up - much like a real drum set. The snare's on the left, two toms are on the right, while the hi-hat is up and left and the crash cymbal is up and right. There's a single bass pedal down below and it can sit anywhere between the set's legs, as there is no metal bar down there to hold it in place (this could be good or bad depending on how you play). The drumset has ports in the back for additional expansions, although the Neversoft guys weren't really ready to talk about anything solid.''
Sometimes, gaming soundtracks can introduce players to bands and artists they've never heard of. This article is all about Matt's five favorites, thanks for gaming.
Accompanied by Heidi Klum, Mr T, Robin Williams, and Jerry (who's suddenly a chicken), Dan takes a look at his favourite video gaming adverts of all time.
Unreality Mag writes: "It’s always fun to see something out of the ordinary when you’re playing a video game. Most times it comes in the forms of funny songs or a game glitch you didn’t expect. And sometimes the game will toss in a celebrity which might throw you off (meaning a good thing).
But here I wanted to focus on celebrities who appeared in games that weren’t so obvious. Games that didn’t really have a celebrity focus yet a celebrity appeared in that seemed almost random.
Here are 10 that I enjoyed the most."
This lt fails for not having Burt F*cken Reynolds from Saints Row the Third
Unless I am blind and didn't see him
